recent economic growth performance of the Indian economy and recount the sluggish response of poverty to high economic growth …

-complete collapse and abject poverty. Economic turmoil, caused by failed land reforms and inflation, combined with increased …

macroeconomic outcomes on poverty rates. With regard to policy, the study examines the changes that took place in 1997-98, and then … acceleration of output growth and employment creation, and contributed to reducing poverty rates. -- Latin American economies … ; macroeconomic policies ; economic growth ; employment ; poverty rates ; inequality …

This paper aims to bring out the determinants of significant poverty alleviation observed in Cameroon between 1993 and … 2001. It focuses on the decomposition of poverty and growth changes, in order to assess the intrinsic contribution of each … infrastructures, and the VAT enforcement respectively accounted for two percent, nine percent and -4 percent of poverty alleviation …

This paper provides a brief and selective overview of research on the links between macroeconomic policies and poverty …

sharp increase in India's poverty measures in the aftermath of the 1991 crisis and stabilization program. However, only one … tenth of the increase in measured poverty is explicable in terms of the variables one would expect to transmit the shock to … poor people. Poverty measures soon returned to their previous level, belying the notion of a structural break induced by …

Macroeconomic crises not only affect the current living standards of the poor, but their ability to grow out of poverty …. This paper presents evidence on the impact of economic crisis on poverty and inequality in Latin America. Crises not only … result in higher poverty rates but may cause irreversible damage to the human capital of the poor. In light of this evidence …